This one has been baffling me for a few weeks now.

The wifes uncle has sent me down on 4 CD's, video footage of our wedding last year, in AVI format. He can't remember what codec he used to encode it (he doesn't even know what software he used to do now except it came with his camera & DV card!!).

The problem that I am having is that I am trying to encode it to VCD/SVCD (either really) so I can split it into 75 minute segments & burn it to CD to distribute to family who want it to watch on their DVD players, and after encoding it to either MPG1 or MPG2 format, all I get is a black screen upon playback (on both PC & after burning to CD) and just the sound playing back as normal (no picture).

I have used TMPGenc, AVI2VCD, Nero's VCD/SVCD encoding (in v5.5.7.2 upwards including the MP2 plugin for it which I paid for & downloaded from Ahead). It is now getting a little expensive in wasting CD's (must have gone through at least 100 in the last week or so). I have even ripped the files to PCM.AVI format (uncompressed sound AVI files) to see if that is the problem.

Anyone got any ideas???